Mani Akella writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a email server setup on a sun sparc / solaris
> 2.8 server with qmail/vpopmail/sqwebmail running for
> the past 12 months.
>
> Am using vchkpw for user accoutn authentication.
>
> Three times in these 12 months, sqwebmail suddenly
> stopped allowing access to user mail accounts with the
> error "invalid user ID or password"
>
> the first two times this happened, I recompiled the
> sqwebmail cgi and reinstalled it - solved the problem.
> this time, even that does not work.
>
> POP access to the same mailboxes with the same
> password works fine - no problem there.
>
> Any pointers to what I am doing wrong or missing? If
> this info is already posted in an archive somewhere,
> please point me to it .
The usual procedure is:
Run "authlib/authtest userid password", to verify that the authentication
module is working. You will get back the location of the mail account, and
the userid/groupid. Verify that these items correctly represent reality.
--
Sam
